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Seconded. Pynchon really registered with me, as a virtual kid, with the attention given to C of L49. I remember reviews, one conversation in the bookstore I worked in. I did not read it then but, after slightly more time passed and there were longer pieces on Pynchon's work---perhaps one in
The Nation was the real trigger, cannot place it for sure--that I first started to read V. 

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On Apr 19, 2013, at 10:00 AM, Don Higgins <bencanard2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Me:  I doubt any of P's California novels would have ever been noticed on their own, without Pynchon's name.
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> Perhaps the last two but not because they aren't better written than say Stephen King novels (many of which I had to read for a job and which got positive reviews from people who trashed Vineland when it came out, for example, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, who judging from his reviews had more respect for Cujo). Didn't CL49 get noticed before Pynchon was a literary name? On its own (or with V.), it wouldn't have turned P. into the major literary figure that GR made him but that doesn't mean it isn't better than a lot of novels that get reviewed well. 
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